Advanced Intelligent Tape Forum is an industry
consortium of hardware and software vendors that was formed in 1999 to advance
the adoption of AIT drive and format technology as a premiere industry standard.

The MultiMediaCard Association is the open
standard memory card organization, promoting worldwide adoption of a
postage-stamp size, removable storage card designed especially for mobile phones
and digital imaging.

The NDAP will help
businesses of all sizes develop a systematic approach to evaluating their
current data protection and DR capabilities, look for weak spots in those
existing plans and choose the optimal data protection products, technologies and
services to minimize or eliminate their exposure to potential data loss.

RDVDC objectives are industry outreach at major
trade shows, information exchanges and discussions among Council members about
technology, market, key devices, etc. in order to expand the recordable DVD
products which comply with the recordable DVD standards (DVD-RAM, DVD-R, DVD-RW)
specified by the DVD Forum.

Formed in September 2004,
SATA-IO is the International Organization that owns and manages Serial ATA
specifications as open industry standards.

Evolved from the Serial ATA
Working Group with this agenda... The Group's companies are cooperating to
develop the Serial ATA storage interface specification for the next-generation
computing platform as a replacement for today's Parallel ATA physical interface.

Founded in July 1999, the
SigmaRAM Consortium is an industry group of leading SRAM suppliers who joined
together to set open standards for a new breed of synchronous SRAM targeted
primarily at the networking and telecom markets.

Editor:- October 28, 2010 - there's another new
ORG for SSD form factors .

Among
other things - it will make over
2.5" SSDs with
PCIe interfaces.
Perhaps it should have been called - the "we think
OCZ is a jumped up upstart"
group. Because OCZ started talking about this idea publicly first - but it's
not part of the club (yet).

The SPC is the only
industry standards organisation that defines and promotes storage benchmarks as
well as disseminates objective, relevant and verifiable performance data and
related test tools to the computer industry and its customers.

Founded in March 2002,
the 10-Gigabit Small Form-factor Pluggable (XFP) Module Group is an industry
association dedicated to technology and standards development for ultra-small
form factor, 10 Gb/s communications modules for 10 G Fibre Channel, 10 G
Ethernet etc.

Megabyte found that talking to other specialists
was a good way to learn more about storage.

..

"You need compatibilities and
similarities to create a new data storage ecosystem - but you need
differences and competitors to make it a true market."

Among
other things - the
SPA's faqs page
says "the SPA will seek to clarify how hard drive technology, solid-state
technology and variations of these technologies may be combined to effectively
meet the needs of a growing storage requirement."

"The faster the SSD,
the quicker it can wear out the memory. This is what creates the pressure
cooker environment for ever more devious flash controller management schemes and
clever SSD architecture. The risk of flash wear-out in SSDs is a kind of
forever war - which is never really permanently won."